Monday, May 30, 2011

Insane Clown Posse -- Update

ONLY the best, the very best, of the settled science made it into The Critical Decade, in whose pages we find this reference to a recent dispatch from the hot front:

"While the instrumental record goes back little more than a century, not long enough to clearly discern multi-decadal patterns of variability that are repeated

on century timescales, palaeo studies could offer some insights into the severity of the recent drought in a longer time perspective. For example, a recent study (Gallant and Gergis 2011) states that the very low streamflow in

the River Murray for the 1998-2008 period is very rare – about a 1-in-1500 year event."

The author would be this Gallant – or Climate Ho Allie, as she is known in rap circles. Check her out at the 1:05 mark of the video, a’shouting and a’cursing and reaching out to taxpaying Australians who are, yo, down with the rap culture.

No word in The Critical Decade about how the lab bitch came up with that remarkable figure. (Hint: It has a lot to do with Balinese coral, New Zealand trees and lots of other floor sweepings from the modern science workshop.)

2 comments:

Dead plants don't tell lies. Stomatal densities refute ice cores like Joker trumps Right Bower. Forest distributions at unquestionably higher CO^2 partial pressures than today's is the one paragraph non sequitur skeleton in the closet smoking gun lay down misere. The fat lady has sung.Please turn out the lights and lock the door on your way out. Leave the money on the fridge if you need to mull it over till bottom of the bottle.